@oaks

The fade to black leaves it open to interpretation. Something to think about when entertaining your theory.

If Carlo rolls (which he does confimed by Tony's lawyer "Neil Mink"?) to protect his son from the drug bust, he seemingly gives up everything (he was point on construction at the time and a Capo) and although "stand up" in the eyes of New York Paulie would be one of the first to be indicted/arrested that hadn't been killed. Throughout the show the main theme with Pauly was that he was so old school he didn't even have a front. He lived solely off of the vig from the sports book and small side scores. FBI+IRS=Pauly being better off whacked by New York with the rest.

With a small street presence left who really knows? Patsy one would assume goes down just as bad as Pauly legally, unless you subscribe to the theory that Patsy killed or had Tony killed/set him up to be killed by New York, however I feel Patsy was still deeply involved enough (in NJ business) to be seriously indicted/arrested by Carlo's cooperation regardless of if he turned on Tony or not out of spite.

One can conclude regardless that whatever indictments were on the way from Carlo's testimony realistically would have crippled the remaining Soprano crew considering those murdered and Tony's "unsure fate", anyone still alive who have just stepped up into a worse legal situation by being the highest ranking Soprano Family members still on the street/alive.

Also in a hypothetical assumption, the rolling continues from NJ to NY in the Lupertazzi Family and even Butch, Albie, and the rest of those who stood to inherit the family get touched too. Undoubtedly, another NJ crew from one of the other four families in the show never mentioned absorbs the territory and begins to operate and North Jersey shifts from the Lupertazzi Family to another New York Family.